Michael Bay took to his website to describe an incident on the Transfomer’s 4 set in Hong Kong involving an air conditioning unit and the fortuitous wearing of Air Max sneakers.

Every vendor where we shot got paid a fair price for our inconvenience, but he wanted four times that amount. I personally told this man and his friends to forget it we were not going to let him extort us. He didn’t like that answer. So an hour later he came by my crew as we were shooting, carrying a long air conditioner unit. He walked right up to me and tried to smack my face…